NOTCH
What does "NOTCH" mean?
A V-shaped cut or indentation made in an edge or surface.
Meanings
- A small V-shaped cut used to mark, hold, or record something. He cut a notch in the tally stick for every day he survived alone.
- A degree or step on a scale. Her latest album is a notch above anything she's done before. figurative
- A narrow pass between mountains. The trail climbs steeply toward the notch before the final ridge.
- To achieve or record (a score, win, or milestone). The rookie notched her first win in front of the home crowd.
Did you know?
- 'Notch' may owe its 'n' to a slip of the ear: 'an otch' was reanalysed as 'a notch' - the mirror image of how 'a napron' lost its 'n' to become 'an apron'.
Word origin
Likely from a misdivision of Old French 'an oche' (a notch) heard as 'a noche', from 'ochier' (to notch); the word's initial 'n' migrated from the article, as in 'newt' and 'nickname'.
Remember it
A NOTCH is a small dent - picture the 'V' carved between the O and the H, a cut in the middle of the word.
A little poem
One cut for the day the river rose,
one for the night it fell again-
the stick remembers what the man forgot.
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What it teaches
Progress is just notches in a stick - small cuts, kept faithfully, become a record of how far you came.
Quick facts
What does NOTCH mean?
A V-shaped cut or indentation made in an edge or surface.
Is NOTCH a valid word?
Yes — NOTCH is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is NOTCH?
NOTCH has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does NOTCH come from?
Likely from a misdivision of Old French 'an oche' (a notch) heard as 'a noche', from 'ochier' (to notch); the word's initial 'n' migrated from the article, as in 'newt' and 'nickname'.
What can NOTCH teach us?
Progress is just notches in a stick - small cuts, kept faithfully, become a record of how far you came.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.